Meanwhile in other minor news

Making territory grabs and threats are becoming China's official policy towards the United States.  It's almost mind-boggling how so few nations have any real concern or respect for the United States anymore.  Of course liberalism knows this is a good thing.  Liberalism believes that the Christian West and its bastard child America are the primary forces of evil and oppression and human suffering in the world.  How this will square with what will happen in the future remains to be seen.  It doesn't really square with what happened in the past, but that hasn't stopped the Left.  So we'll see.